Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 5:01am
By Elizabeth D. Samet
In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 12:03pm
By Maureen Corrigan
Messud draws from her grandfather's handwritten memoir as she tells a cosmopolitan, multigenerational story about a family forced to move from Algeria to Europe to South and North America.
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 6:00am
By Barbara J. King
Nature's healing power is an immensely personal focus for Foster. He made his film after being burned out from long, grinding hours at work. After the release of the film, he suffered from insomnia.
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 5:04am
By Dwight Garner
The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 5:02am
By Elizabeth A. Harris
A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 5:01am
By Rachel Slade
As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 5:01am
By Nicolas Niarchos
In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 5:02am
By Thessaly La Force
As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 5:01am
By Alexandra Jacobs
An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 5:01am
By Alissa Nutting
In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.